Editing George Whipple (section)

==Retirement==
In 1953, at 75 years old, Whipple retired from the Deanship, and retirement from the university would follow in 1955.<ref name=":2" /> He was remembered as a superb teacher.<ref name=":6" /><ref>Autobiographical notes of Lauren V. Ackerman. IN: Rosai J (Ed): '''''Guiding the Surgeon's Hand''''', American Registry of Pathology, Washington, D.C., 1997; pp. 275–285.</ref> In his autobiography, ''A Dozen Doctors'', Whipple wrote, "I would be remembered as a teacher".<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1964-04-01|title=A Dozen Doctors. Autobiographic Sketches.|journal=Annals of Internal Medicine|language=en|volume=60|issue=4|pages=751|doi=10.7326/0003-4819-60-4-751_2|issn=0003-4819|pmc=1515522|last1=Mottram|first1=M. E.}}</ref> He spent his retirement years dabbling in pathology department and medical school activities at the University of Rochester, but returned to his outdoors-man roots, filling his time with pheasant hunting, salmon fishing on the [[Margaree River]], and tarpon fishing off the coast in Florida.<ref name=":2" />

Whipple died in 1976 at the age of 97 and his ashes were scattered in Rochester's [[Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester|Mount Hope Cemetery]].<ref name=":5" />

Though he was not related to [[Allen Whipple]], who described the [[Whipple procedure]] and [[Whipple's triad]], the two were lifelong friends.<ref>{{cite journal| doi=10.1016/S0016-5085(99)70485-3 | volume=117 | issue=3 | title=Whipple of Whipple's disease | year=1999 | journal=Gastroenterology | page=576 | last1 = Haubrich | first1 = William S.}}</ref> The Whipples also had a deep friendship with [[George Eastman]], founder of Rochester-based [[Eastman Kodak]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rbscp.lib.rochester.edu/3446|title=University of Rochester Library Bulletin: The Whipples and George Eastman {{!}} RBSCP|website=rbscp.lib.rochester.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-10-11}}</ref>